Machine Gun Kelly changed genre because of “Hotel Diablo” low sales after Eminem’s diss.
Machine Gun Kelly is still on the promo run for his latest number 1 album ‘Tickets To My Downfall‘ which was released a couple of months ago. He recently sat down with Interview Magazine for a photoshoot and an interview where Machine Gun Kelly revealed that his last year’s project ‘Hote Diablo‘ wasn’t well-received by the listeners due to Eminem’s infamous beef. The low sales of his last project possibly made him try something new as he switched genre to Pop-Punk with his new album which earned him his first number 1 on the Billboard 200 chart.
Hotel Diablo opened at fifth place on the Billboard 200 with 39,000 equivalent album units, with album sales accounting for 16,000 of the total. It is his fourth number-one album. It dropped to 20th place in its second week, selling 20,585 album equivalent copies. It fell to 38 in week three, selling 13,141 units.
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Travis Barker’s Machine Gun Kelly songs demonstrate why the Blink-182 drummer is the go-to collaborator for everyone from Willow Smith to Jxdn. Machine Gun Kelly discusses why he considered quitting music before releasing his current album Tickets to My Downfall, as well as the issues. Machine Gun Kelly, a.k.a. Colson Baker, has a reputation for flitting across genres.
“Were there moments when you almost gave up because you were killing yourself for your music and it still felt like you were misunderstood?” asks Dave.
“Yes. [The 2019 album] Hotel Diablo is that for me because that was the first time I really expressed my true self with no outside influence, meaning the label,” says MGK. “As a hip-hop album, it’s flawless front to back, and also a hint at the evolution of how I went into a pop-punk album. But it was coming off the tail-end of that infamous beef [with Eminem]. So no one wanted to give it the time of day. It’s like if you make a shitty movie and then you come out with a great movie right after, but people want to focus on the fact that they hated whatever you just did. What I did in the beef was exactly what it should be, but that project wasn’t welcomed. The next album came from already feeling like I’d counted out, so I didn’t even care what the public was going to think. That’s why the project was ironically my best-received one because it was the most effortless, with the least outside influence.” So we can say that Eminem’s “Killshot” probably made him switch genres with his new project because his last year’s Rap album wasn’t well-received by the Hip-Hop fans.
Kelly also discussed how critics reacted to his pop-punk shift in the interview: “I made four albums straight-up not giving a f**k what critics had to say. But this one, when the numbers were what they were, and the fans were as excited as they were, and the fact that we against all odds got the number-one spot, it was really weird to see that critics couldn’t even be like, ‘Hey, man, way to stick it out and finally show the world that you can conquer all the obstacles.’ It was weird to see people be like, ‘Well, now because you got success, I need to go out of my way to go against the popular opinion and tear away at it.’”
So MGK finally accepted that his rap career is over and he switched genres because of Eminem. The beef cost him his career. pic.twitter.com/gmGGgXD8y0
— EMINEM (@Eminem_Posts__) December 1, 2020
Check out the full thing on Interview Magazine and another new interview on Nylon.
